Old Free VSTi Gems From The Past

[Timfonie]

It is very doable when the job is split up in parts and say 10 people take their part scanning for and collecting links.

I'm willing to do the first hundred pages.

To get quicker access to certain pages you can change the address bar.
Every page contains 15 messages except for the last one if it's not complete yet. So for example if you want to directly jump to page 300, do the following:

1. Open the thread and go to the first page (by clicking on page no. '1')
2. Change the last zero in the address bar to the page number you want to access minus one and multiplied by 15. In this case that would be (300 - 1) x 15 = 4485.

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... start=4485

There you go.


Combining the several subcollections by different people shouldn't be a big problem. Because of the large number of links it would be nice to have the final big list in alphabetical order.

However because many of the older links don't work anymore and new links may be outdated soon again it would be wise i.m.o. to also have the whole collection stored at one place somewhere, as a conservation vault (as far as the creators allow us).

What do you think of this plan? Who's in?

[eidenk]

It seems like we have already mentioned all the free vsti gems from the past and nothing left to say. The topic shall be closed.
I have hoped that the content of the mega thousand vsti list would be accesable somehow but i completely understand if it wont be. He collected them year after year had a lot of work with it. Why would he give it away ?
Its a pity tho...

I really don't understand the negativity you display dude, now this after complaining about my recent upload of requested oldies...

As I told you by PM and posted in this thread a few posts or pages ago, I'll post this list (hopefully before the end of the year if times permit to finish fine tuning it), so what?

As I've said however, it's only a well sorted reference list of what I've got on my HDD which doesn't include any download links.

And for those who complain about the lack of an aggregated list of all the links in this thread I've already mentioned that the dripfeed link in bob bobwood's signature appears to be just exactly that so I am not sure what all this moaning is about???

[eidenk]

It is very doable when the job is split up in parts and say 10 people take their part scanning for and collecting links.

I'm willing to do the first hundred pages.

To get quicker access to certain pages you can change the address bar.
Every page contains 15 messages except for the last one if it's not complete yet. So for example if you want to directly jump to page 300, do the following:

1. Open the thread and go to the first page (by clicking on page no. '1')
2. Change the last zero in the address bar to the page number you want to access minus one and multiplied by 15. In this case that would be (300 - 1) x 15 = 4485.

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... start=4485

There you go.

There is only 112 pages in print mode, extracting all links from those pages shouldn't take more than a few hours at best or couple of days at worst for a single dedicated person using adequate tools (such as Opera Links in Opera for example)

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/printview ... 07&start=0

[crimsonwarlock]

Grabbing all the links is the easy part....

[spacedad]

@Timfonie nice tip.
@idfpower i guess when mr dreaddd started the thread with 'my small humble present for the forum's weekend... ' he wasn't anticipating the avalanche it would become.

[spacedad]

http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/raid ... stvst/info

[bob bobwood]

If you want a concise list of everything click on my signature for A-Z zillions of links. It is my summary of this thread. I was just happy to plod through the list over the last three and a half years. My thanks go to all the devs who made the stuff and to the contributors who made this thread what it is. My way of thanks was to put my record of it all in a spreadsheet.

It's just about everything in this thread and some more for good measure, mainly so you can figure which is free and which is not. OK it's not as sortable as eidenks work of art, and maybe someone could incorporate his tags into my list should he decide to publish it.

Sort the spreadsheet by [download site] column for a site by site list. btw, I have deliberately made it difficult to use with csv format, lol.

only posting to mention line 142 in my sheet, you never know there may be gems in there.

[Timfonie]

That's an impressive list Bob! Great job! It means so far no need to generate another list here at KVR.

[bob bobwood]

Thanks, it suits my needs. You're all welcome to save it and do as you see fit with it, perhaps even take it to a new level. I'll keep updating, cleaning and correcting it bit by bit.
only posting to mention line 142 in my sheet, you never know there may be gems in there.

[mztk]

as Crimson Warlock says, the links is only the first part,
you stil have to go fetch the files. and then you organise your
download folders, check out the ones you can...it all takes time.

i appreciate that it is impractical for someone finding the list
at this stage. i went through 80 pages when i first found it and
just kept on tagging along. i mean at one point you had to set
aside an hour or so for a visit to this thread!(i exxagerate)

there's another 38 or so pages on Music Society if you fancy it.

[crimsonwarlock]

The biggest problem with setting up such a list, is the maintenance. As soon as you have made a comprehensive list available, everyone expect the links to be valid over time. Keeping it up to dat so the list doesn't become another graveyard of dead links, is the biggest challenge.

I know because I'm doing something like it on the Reaper forum (see the link in my signature), and that is by comparison to this topic here a pretty minor effort

[mztk]

exactly..

to wit:
http://www.amvst.com/dstation

novation drumstation controller vsti (new/recent)

i grab files and then chuck them into dated folders
pending a sort-through. every now and then i make a
new folder, so i end up with more or less month by
month depending on in-flow of downloads. seems to
work ok although i should have adopted reverse date
eg: yy/mm/dd at the start.

but files don't really end up in per dev folders this
way, and it gives no indication of what each plugin
does - eidenk's table should allow attribution of
'properties' to each entry eg: if one want to annotate
all monosynths, or all drumsynths or drum machines or etc.
it would be relatively painless( eek, to go through 11000+
entries...) to add descriptions. i don't know if bob's list
allows this?

pc advisor magazine had a good little browser on their cd
that gave a GUI for info and access to each item, and it
referred to an excel table. for anyone that fancies it...

[stockholm808]

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The only reason i wrote these lines was that there was no new comment after 4-5 days, so i just started joking about closing time. I didnt think that someone would take it as negativity or bitterness , it is really far from my personality.

But i dont think i am alone with my wish of those many VSTs which are not accessable anymore. This topic has a lot of download possibilities, but many of the links are already dead. If someone join the topic now has very difficult to follow us. Yes they can dig as we did then but with less luck. We ALL would like to have ALL the VSTs, maybe not because they are ALL great, but the hidden treasure syndrome works. We are curious about old stuff and have memories of them and of ourselves when we used them havent we ? And these stuffs are history too and seem to disappear. We who use them keep them alive. This topic is a kind of shrine. Maybe its just me, but when i find a VST from 20 years ago, i see the guy who made it as a pioneer of something and even if there are better VSTs nowadays i keep it. These works are sinking down to the bottom of the sea of the newest digital technology and its weird to see that something that was not so long ago a revolutionary solution is not more than trash today and throwed out . And this tendency is true to ideas, isms, and even people. If someone has made a cool stuff once, he is worth to remember. To collect old stuffs is a kind of traverse of the statement that we all have to run after the newest stuffs and deny the greatness of the next to last stuff. Believe me i am not bitter, only have respect for those old things and as many of us too i guess it should be a museum of them.
Of course i cant force anyone to share his VST collection, thats why i said i dont judge anyone if he doesnt want to share. If those persons who have those megalists decide to share their collection i will be the first who thanks them but not because of me but because of they rescued somethig we are all interested in. So i think you guys missunderstood me but since then the topic is alive again . I apologize tho if i hurt someone or i seemed to be thankless. I really appreciate every one of you who share. disinterestedly.

[ForestCat]

I'm sure most of you know, but just in case...

In google, search for the name of what you're looking for, followed by site:www.kvraudio.com, i.e.:

audiomidiscripter site:www.kvraudio.com

and that will get you all (theoretically) of the google-indexed occurances of the search string within the kvr site. The hitch is that in a thread this big, it may be off a page or three(due to edits, etc. after the crawl which cause the threads to re-page), so you might need to browse a couple of pages further forward/back and use CTRL-F (or your browsers equiv) to search the long pages for the text. But it beats the hell out paging through 700+ pages.

AND SPEAKING OF AUDIOMIDISCRIPTER...

if ANYONE has a copy of AZ-Audio's stuff(all now free abandonware), specifically AudioMIDIScripter, they can shoot me, I'd be much obliged. It no longer exists "in the wild", plenty of dead links, though.
Thanks.

[LUNALUNARE]

hey i serch for Speakafreaka vst and SH101 Emulation by NoVynil if someone have them and will upload them i Would appreciate it